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Biodefense Headlines – June 25, 2017

by Global Biodefense Staff
June 25, 2017
Biodefense and Biosecurity Headlines

Biodefense and Biosecurity HeadlinesSee what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including cholera vaccines, dose-response models for Q Fever, and establishing an emergency fund for epidemic response.

POLICY, PRACTICES & POLITICS

  • Scientists are racing to predict where the next pandemic will start (Verge)
  • Ensuring the vital role of sanitation in disease prevention (Contagion Live)
  • Robust emergency fund needed to respond to future disease outbreaks (SciAm)
  • U.S. now more prepared against Foot-and-Mouth Disease (AG Daily)
  • Critical gaps in knowledge of where infectious diseases occur (Phys.org)
  • Pandemics and the poor (Brookings)

SELECT AGENTS

  • Safe burial practices helped prevent further spread of Ebola in West Africa (VOA)
  • Texas Biomed plans new lab to study lethal infections (MySA)
  • Development of recombinant Ebola vaccine in midst of an epidemic (SD)
  • A human time dose response model for Q Fever (SD)
  • A modular high biosafety field laboratory (PLOS NTD)

MEDICAL COUNTERMEASURES

  • War-torn Yemen to get cholera vaccines as death toll mounts (US News)
  • Further BARDA funding for MediWound’s NexoBrid development (GlobeNewswire)
  • Finding the perfect match: a new approach to battle drug-resistant bacteria (Univ of Utah)
  • Modified viruses deliver death to antibiotic-resistant bacteria (Nature)
  • Butterflies extracts show antibacterial activity (Sci Research Publishing)
  • Cell-based flu vaccine hits commercial scale (GEN)
  • BARDA expands Basilea’s funding (C&EN)

OUTBREAK NEWS & THREAT SURVEILLANCE

  • Kenya cholera outbreak hits dozens at health conference (BBC)
  • Another canary in the same coalmine – mild MERS may be bad news (VDU)
  • Here are the places where the next pandemics are likely to pop up (CNBC)
  • ‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising human toll (Reuters)
  • Polio outbreak expands in Syria, as health officials plan immunization campaign (STAT)
  • CDC report shows foodborne botulism poisoning increasing (Food Safety News)
  • Study: First Zika microcephaly wave in Brazil was outlier (CIDRAP)
  • South Africa reports outbreak of H5N8 bird flu, industry body says (Reuters)

SPECIAL INTEREST

  • Speaking with: Peter Doherty about infectious disease pandemics (The Conversation)
  • Seqirus flu vax factory in Holly Springs hits another milestone (WRAL)

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